Abstract
While convergent, the human orbit differs from that of non-human apes in that its lateral orbital margin is significantly more rearward. This rearward position does not obstruct the additional visual field gained through eye motion. This additional visual field is therefore considered to be wider in humans than in non-human apes. A mathematical model was designed to quantify this difference. The mathematical model is based on published computed tomography data in the human neuro-ocular plane (NOP) and on additional anatomical data from 100 human skulls and 120 non-human ape skulls (30 gibbons; 30 chimpanzees / bonobos; 30 orangutans; 30 gorillas). It is used to calculate temporal visual field eccentricity values in the NOP first in the primary position of gaze then for any eyeball rotation value in abduction up to 45° and any lateral orbital margin position between 85° and 115° relative to the sagittal plane. By varying the lateral orbital margin position, the human orbit can be made “non-human ape-like”. In the Pan-like orbit, the orbital margin position (98.7°) was closest to the human orbit (107.1°). This modest 8.4° difference resulted in a large 21.1° difference in maximum lateral visual field eccentricity with eyeball abduction (Pan-like: 115°; human: 136.1°).
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Introduction
The Hominoidea superfamily1 (“hominoids”) is comprised of modern humans (Homo sapiens) and non-human apes. Non-human apes, humans’ closest relatives2,3, include gibbons (family Hylobatidae), orangutans (family Hominidae, genus Pongo), chimpanzees and bonobos (family Hominidae, genus Pan) and gorillas (family Hominidae, genus Gorilla)1. Modern humans’ orbital morphology is unique among the Hominoidea superfamily in that the human orbital width/height ratio is highest and, whilst convergent (front-facing), the human orbit has the rearmost temporal orbital margin4,5. This orbital margin configuration increases the human median temporal visual field surface area by 46% with eye-abduction, which promotes effective visual and visual field exploration through eye motion rather than head motion4,6,7.
The neuro-ocular plane (NOP) is defined as the plane which, in the primary position of gaze (looking straight ahead in the distance), contains the centre of both crystalline lenses, optic discs and optic foramina8,9,10. This plane can be used to obtain head orientations in space to facilitate precise comparisons between human and non-human apes4,10. In this plane, the human temporal orbital margin is 107.1°4,5 from the sagittal plane compared to 98.7°4,5 in humans’ closest relatives3,11 chimpanzees and bonobos. The visual field, including the additional visual field gained through eye motion, may be easily tested in humans6,7 but not in non-human apes. Visual field testing is not, therefore, an appropriate solution for appraising how the anatomical differences in the orbital margin between humans and non-human apes translate into visual field differences. To address this issue, we developed a mathematical model. The aim of the model was to calculate temporal visual field eccentricity in the NOP, first in the primary position of gaze (with eyes looking straight ahead), then for any eyeball rotation value in abduction up to 45° and for any temporal orbital margin position between 85° and 115°. In so doing, we aimed to quantify the influence of the orbital morphology difference between humans and non-human apes on temporal visual field extent, including the additional visual field gained through eyeball abduction.
Results
Neutral φ angle value
The neutral φ angle value is 94.9°. In our model, for an orbit with this φ value, eye abduction does not offer any additional visual field gain, taking the whole range of abduction into account.
ω max., ω mean, ω top max. and ε max. results
The ω max. (and related α) plots according to the various eye abduction values (θ from 0 to 45°) for different φ values are displayed in Fig. 1: The human orbit gives far more visual field expansion with eye abduction than modified non-human ape-like orbits. The Gorilla-like modified orbit plot is below that of the modified neutral orbit (in which the φ angle value is 94.9°). For each orbit type, the maximum α value decreases after the ω top max. value has been reached.
Figure 2 displays the plots of ω top max. (and related α and θ), ω mean, ε max. according to φ angle values between 85° (lowest recorded value) and 115° (highest recorded value). The ω mean and ε max. plots intersect at 94.9° (neutral φ value). The α and θ values reach their respective maximum values (50.3° and 45°) with the highest φ values only.
Schematic cross-sections illustrating ε max. and ω top max. values for the human orbit and modified Pan-like and Gorilla-like orbits are displayed in Fig. 3. For each orbit type, the visual field in the primary position (ε max.) extends 103°. With permitted eye-abduction, the visual field (ω top max.) extends 136.1° for the human orbit, 115° for the Pan-like orbit and 104.3° for the Gorilla-like orbit. This decrease in ω top max. values is accompanied by a decrease in related eye abduction (respective θ angles: 36.9°; 15.8°; 5.1°).
Information about the skulls included in this study and a summary of the main results generated by the mathematical model (ε max., ω top max. with related θ and α angles; ω mean with related θ and α angles) are displayed in Table 1.
Oculo-orbital indices (OOI) for modified (“non-human ape-like”) human orbits
The calculated OOIs in Hylobatidae, Pan, Pongo and Gorilla were 50.2%, 42%, 29.6% and 29.3%, respectively.
Discussion
In 1961, Hedblom reported that humans could extend their visual field through eye motion, mostly in the temporal sector where the facial relief (brow, nose, cheek) does not interfere with vision12. The human palpebral fissure is the most elongated in all the primates and is believed to allow visual field expansion through ample eye movement13,14. We recently showed that, in humans, the median visual field surface area increased by 46% in the temporal area with eye abduction and that the horizontal median temporal eccentricity of the visual field was 94.7° in the primary position of gaze (up to 104.5°) and 128.3° with eye abduction (up to 137.7°)7. For the human orbit, the mathematical model used in the present report yields figures that are in the same range as these experimental results. Hence, in the primary position of gaze, it calculates a temporal visual field eccentricity (ε max.) of 103°. When the whole range of eye abduction is taken into account, it calculates a mean maximum temporal visual field eccentricity (ω mean) of 123.9°. For a 36.9° abduction, it calculates a top maximum temporal visual field eccentricity (ω top max.) of 136.1°.
Using computerized tomography, Saban et al. reported an 11.11% oculo-orbital index (OOI) in one Hylobates lar15. Photographs of live gibbons16,17 show that their eyeballs are deeply tucked into their orbits. However, in our model, the calculated OOI was 50.2% in the “Hylobatidae-like” orbit. There is therefore a considerable discrepancy between in-vivo facts about the eyeball position in Hylobatidae and the OOI calculated in the modified “Hylobatidae-like” human orbit. For this orbit, we considered our model’s relevance to be poor.
Schultz reported that, in chimpanzees, the eye lies deep within the orbit, thereby affording ample protection on all sides18. Furthermore, using computerized tomography, Saban et al. reported a 34.78% OOI in one Pan troglodytes19. Schultz noted that, in orangutans, the eyeball extends slightly beyond the orbital margin18, a fact confirmed by analysing live animal photographs16,20. Photographs of a live gorilla16,20,21,22 show that their eyeballs lie deep within their orbits, similar to chimpanzees. The calculated OOI was 42% in the “Pan-like” orbit, 29.6% in the “Pongo-like” orbit and 29.3% in the “Gorilla-like” orbit. We consider these values to be in accordance with the aforementioned in-vivo facts. We considered our model’s relevance to be good for these orbits. We therefore took into account the data yielded by our model for the “Pan-like”, “Pongo-like” and “Gorilla-like” modified human orbits. As the “Pongo-like” and “Gorilla-like” modified orbits have very similar φ values, we reported only the data pertaining to the “Gorilla-like” orbit in Figs 1 and 3.
Visual field (with or without permitted eye motion) cannot be tested in non-human apes. We designed the present study in an attempt to overcome this limitation. The basic idea behind this study was to use an archetypal human orbit, the opening angle (OA) of which can be varied so that it becomes “non-human ape-like”. Changing the orbit’s OA from 107.1° (human) to 98.7°, 94.3°, 94.4° and 101.6°, respectively, created “Pan-like”, “Gorilla-like”, “Pongo-like” and “Hylobatidae-like” modified human orbits. We have shown poor model relevance for Hylobatidae. We therefore considered that the figures generated by our model for Hylobatidae were unusable.
To some extent, the present study bridges the gap between anatomy and physiology. It shows that the rearward human lateral orbital margin offers much more eyeball abduction-related visual field expansion than that of non-human apes. More precisely, it shows that the 8.4° difference in OA (107.1°–98.7°) between human and Pan results in a 21.1° difference in maximum temporal visual field eccentricity (136.1°–115°) with permitted eye abduction. In other words, a minor 8.4° anatomical difference results in a large (2.5-fold) difference in maximum temporal visual field eccentricity. Similarly, it shows that the 12.8° difference in OA (107.1°–93.3°) between Human and Gorilla results in a 2.5-fold greater 31.8° difference in maximum temporal visual field eccentricity (136.1°–104.3°) with permitted eye abduction. The figures generated by our model for Pongo are very close to those obtained with Gorilla, the respective φ values of both genera being 94.3° and 94.4°. These figures are lower than the 94.9° neutral φ value. This implies that for the Gorilla-like and Pongo-like orbits, eye abduction is not “profitable” (visual-field efficient), so to speak, because it results in an average visual field with lower eccentricity than that recorded in the primary position of gaze.
In our model, for the human orbit, the ω top max. (and related θ and α angles values) and ω mean plot reached a plateau for the highest φ values. The plateau is the consequence of a maximum eyeball abduction of 45°.
The rearward human lateral orbital position could be a by-product of other aspects of craniofacial anatomy (an exaptation) as loss of the snout with facial retraction below the anterior cranial fossa23 or a steep forehead24. These two factors could have had opposite effects, the former being expected to drive the lower lateral orbital margin rearward and the latter being expected to drive the upper lateral orbital margin forward. Furthermore, compared with non-human apes, modern humans eat soft, highly processed foods and do not spend much time chewing23,25. Accordingly, modern humans have masticatory muscles that are much less developed than those of non-human apes23. In anthropoid primates, the line of action of the anterior temporalis muscle is roughly vertical26. In humans, posterior facial retraction has resulted in a more posteriorly placed anterior temporalis muscle, with a line of action which is expected to have more of an antero-posterior component than that observed in non-human apes. However, not much stress is transferred to the upper face, including the postorbital septum, during chewing, in anthropoid primates including humans23,27. Furthermore, assuming that there is more antero-posterior strain on the postorbital septum in humans than in non-human apes, the expected response would be to add bony mass23,28 to the zone under strain, the result of which would not be expected to change the position of the lateral orbital margin. Finally, the human anterior temporalis muscle, which is proportionally thinner than that in non-human apes, may provide less support for the postorbital septum. However, the influence of this factor on the position of the human rearward lateral orbital margin (RLOM) position is unsubstantiated. To quote Lieberman29: “heads defy many efforts to simplify because they are, by nature, complex and highly integrated systems”. Hence, the RLOM likely represents a compromise of many factors including the demands of temporal fossa content and those of the orbit. Apart from exaptation, there is good reason to believe that natural selection has driven the evolution of an RLOM in humans. The human RLOM does not offer much lateral eyeball protection, which may have had little negative selective pressure in humans. Indeed, humans live in a branchless environment with much less risk of branch-related eyeball trauma4 than the non-human apes who almost exclusively inhabit tropical forests16,17,22. Hence, far from being a “design fault” in the human visual system30, RLOM position and anterior eyeball position in the orbit may represent a trade-off between usually non-blinding UVB-related eyeball conditions (e.g. pterygia or cataracts of the nasal aspects of the crystalline lens30) and a large visual field30, enlarged through eye motion7,12,13, which may aid survival30. Humans are ground-dwellers16, live in open spaces more than in tropical forests25,31,32 and, being the only habitual mammalian bipeds16,21,31,33, have most of their visual targets at or parallel to ground level4. Compared to knuckle-walking, human bipedal locomotion involves a higher head position and a more forward-facing orbital plane orientation relative to the frontal plane34. This overlooking, forward-facing, orbital position is useful in humans whose large, heavy heads are much more difficult to move than those of smaller primates because the human head weight increases like the cube of the multiplier whereas the neck surface increases only like the square of the multiplier (Galileo’s principle of similitude14,35,36). In primates, the eye scales with greater negative allometry with respect to body mass than the orbit does18,37,38. The eyes of large primates (e.g. humans) therefore fill proportionally less orbital volume that the eyes of small primates37,38. Large primates therefore have proportionally more orbital space for oculomotor muscles14. Based on Galileo’s principle of similitude14,35,36, this favours swift and ample eyeball movements in large primates, especially humans4,7,39,40,41,42. Set in their overlooking anatomical position, human eyes may thus efficiently scan their environment, mostly at or parallel to ground level4. This process, which is very useful in challenging environments12, saves head movement and increases spatial awareness and vigilance through visual and visual field exploration, with the RLOM avoiding obstruction of the EMVF4,5,6,7.
The fact that the anatomical measurements of the OA in humans and non-human apes (denoted by φ in the present study) and human orbital width were recorded in the NOP enabled us to use previously published data by Cabanis et al. in 1033 normal adults aged 14 to 89 years43. Furthermore, using the NOP is a validated way of orienting the head in space to perform reliable inter-species comparisons10. The OA values used in this study come from a large sample of skulls4 (100 human skulls and 120 non-human ape skulls).
Our model has many limitations. It only assesses temporal visual field eccentricity in the NOP. It considers that the cornea is spherical whereas it is well know that the cornea is an aspherical diopter, the peripheral part of which is flatter than its apex44,45,46. It does not take into account the air-cornea then cornea-aqueous humor interface. Rather, it takes a single air-aqueous humor interface into account, considering that the cornea is infinitely thin. For that reason, as previously done before47,48, a 1.336 rather than a 1.37649,50 refractive index has been used for the cornea, as if the aqueous humor bulged forward and were in direct contact with the air.
Our model only takes into account rays refracted by the cornea through the pupil centre, whereas the pupil actually offers a wider area through which rays may be refracted. Our visual field calculations have not taken into account the difference between the optical axis and the visual axis. These axes are 5° apart in humans47,48,51, the area centralis being located slightly temporal to the visual axis. However, this approximation is acceptable in higher primates for which the two axes roughly coincide52. We have been unable to find data on the thickness of soft tissues in humans anterior to the temporal orbital margin in the NOP. The orbicularis oculi thickness anterior to the frontal process of the zygomatic bone was less than 1 mm on average in 40 healthy volunteers53. The average skin thickness in the lower eyelid (a zone close to the orbital margin) using full-thickness skin biopsies in 3 fresh cadavers was 0.82 mm54. We assigned a plain 1 mm thickness to soft tissues anterior to the temporal orbital margin in the NOP. This value seemed compatible with the rough estimate provided by the aforementioned data.
In our model, we considered that eyeball rotation in abduction was even around its center. In reality, this is probably more complex. Using magnetic resonance imaging, Lasudry et al. reported that for upgaze and downgaze, a translatory movement of the globe opposite to the direction of gaze occurred55,56. The same phenomenon could occur in horizontal eye movements.
Maximum eyeball excursion in humans and monkeys is similar, namely+/−45°57. Taking eyeball abduction into account in order to compare visual field eccentricity in humans and non-human apes therefore makes sense. In our model, for the “Pan-like” and “Gorilla-like” modified orbits, maximum temporal visual field eccentricity was reached at only 15.8° and 5.1°, respectively. Eccentricity decreased for higher abduction values.
To summarise, the human orbit differs from that of non-human apes in that its lateral orbital margin is significantly more rearward. This rearward position does not obstruct the lateral visual field, especially the additional visual field gained through eye motion. This additional visual field is therefore considered to be wider in humans than in non-human apes4. However, no attempt at quantifying this additional lateral visual field difference has ever been attempted. The mathematical model used in this study shows that the minor orbital anatomical differences between humans and non-human apes results in wide visual field expansion with eyeball abduction differences. More precisely, an 8.4° difference in the orbital margin position between humans and Pan leads to a 21.1° visual field expansion with the eyeball abduction difference (136.1° versus 115°). In a previous report, humans have been deemed to be unique among mammals in combining overlapping monocular visual fields and, through eye motion, large (enlarged) lateral visual fields7. The present report strongly suggests that such visual field characteristics make humans unique among hominoids.
Methods
Anatomical and physiological data
Table 2 sums-up the optical, physiological and anatomical data used in our mathematical model.
Eyeball data
The cornea was considered as a spherical diopter47,45 with a 7.8-mm radius of curvature44,49 and a 12-mm horizontal diameter58. The air-cornea interface and the cornea-aqueous humor interface were combined into the air-cornea interface as before47,48. The cornea refractive index was set at 1.33647,48. A 24.19-mm antero-posterior eyeball length in the NOP was used43. The external ante-bicanthal eyeball segment in the NOP corresponded to the eyeball segment located anterior to the line joining the points where the NOP and both temporal orbital margins intersect. A value of 15.89 mm was used for this segment43. A 3.15-mm anterior chamber eyeball depth was used49. Eyeball rotation around the eyeball centre was employed. A 0° (primary position of gaze) to 45° eyeball abduction range was used39,41. A coinciding eyeball optic axis (axis of symmetry of the lens and cornea) and visual axis (the line through the centre of the corneal apex to the area centralis of the retina) were used52. Temporal rays refracting exclusively through the pupil centre (as opposed to the whole pupil area) were taken into account.
Orbital data
The neuro-ocular plane (NOP)8,9,10 was the reference plane. Many morphological data have been measured in this plane by Cabanis et al. using computerized tomography in 1033 normal adults aged 14 to 80 years10. Furthermore, this plane can be used for reproducible head orientation in space, making inter-species comparisons possible10,59. The NOP is defined as the plane which, in primary position of gaze (looking straight ahead in the distance), contains the centre of the crystalline lenses, optic discs and optic foramina8,9,10. In the primary gaze position, the pupil is equidistant from the superior and inferior orbital margins49,60. We therefore defined the NOP, as Paul Broca did in 187360, as the plane which runs symmetrically through both optic foramina and through a point located mid-way between the highest and lowest points of the orbital margin. The external bicanthal distance, that is the distance between the two points where the NOP and temporal orbital margins intersect (denoted by TT’ in Fig. 4), is 97.52 mm43. The inter-ocular distance, that is the distance between the centre of the two crystalline lenses (denoted by AA’ or PP’ or EE’ or KK’ or BB’ in Fig. 4), is 63.73 mm43. A 1-mm soft tissue thickness anterior to the temporal orbital margin was used.
Orbital Opening Angle
The opening angle (OA) denotes the more or less rearward lateral orbital margin position. The higher this angle, the more rearward the lateral orbital margin position. Details about the OA measurement method used on 100 human skulls and 120 non-human ape skulls have already been published4. The average OA (+/−standard error of the mean) was 107.1° (+/−0.245°) in humans, 98.7° (+/−0.408°) in Pan, 94.3° (+/−0.401°) in Gorilla, 94.4° (+/−0.489°) in Pongo and 101.6° (+/−0.486°) in Hylobatidae4. The lowest OA value recorded was 85°, in the right orbit of a male Gorilla beringei and in the left orbit of a male Pongo pygmaeus4. The highest OA value was 115° in the left orbit of a male human from Romania4. In this study, the OA was denoted by φ (Fig. 5).
Orbital diameter in the NOP
Thirty human skulls chosen at random (using labels placed in a ballot box and drawn at random) were used for the calculations: 6 skulls were from Europe (3 males, 3 females), 6 skulls were from Aboriginal Australians (3 males, 3 females), 6 skulls were from China (3 males, 3 females), 6 skulls were from Native Americans (1 male, 1 female, 4 unknown genera) and 6 skulls were from Africa (3 males, 3 females). In each skull, the NOP position was illustrated as described above. The orbital width of the NOP was measured on both sides using calipers (model “815A”, Facom, New Britain, CT, USA). The average (+/−standard error of the mean) of the sixty measurements was 40.17+/−0.277 mm.
Mathematics
Principle of the mathematical model
Our model involves points located in the NOP and displayed in Figs 4, 5 and 6. An overview of both orbits, one eyeball and one orbit are displayed in Figs 4, 5 and 6, respectively. Our approach consisted in using an archetypal human orbit based on solid published facts (see sections “Eyeball data”, “Orbital data”, “Orbital opening angle” and “Orbital diameter in the NOP”) and measured anatomical facts in 100 skulls from 5 continents4. We then modifying one and only one parameter, i.e. the lateral orbital margin position of the archetypal human orbit. More precisely, by allocating the archetypal human orbit the lateral orbital margin position measured in Hylobatidae (30 skulls), Pan (30 skulls), Pongo (30 skulls) and Gorilla (30 skulls), we created Hylobatidae-like, Pan-like, Pongo-like and Gorilla-like human orbits. Thus, the model involves mathematical calculations on the archetypal human orbit and on modified human orbits using variations of the OA (denoted by φ: see Fig. 5). For instance, by modifying the human φ from 107.1° (archetypal human orbit) to 98.7° or 94.3° (values measured in Pan and Gorilla, respectively), we created modified “Pan-like” or “Gorilla-like” human orbits. We would like to make it clear that a Pan-like or a Gorilla-like human orbit is not the same as a Pan orbit or a Gorilla orbit.
Terminology used (Figure 6)
The angle between any given temporal ray refracted through the pupil centre and the sagittal plane, with the eye in the primary position of gaze, was called ε. The angle between the sagittal plane and the most peripheral ray refracted through the pupil centre, with the eye in the primary position of gaze, was called ε max. The angle between the sagittal plane and any temporal ray refracted through the pupil centre, with the eye in abduction (denoted by θ), was called ω. The angle between the sagittal plane and the most peripheral ray refracted through the pupil centre, with the eye in one given θ abduction position, was called ω max. The angle between the sagittal plane and the most peripheral ray refracted through the pupil centre for the whole range of θ values (between 0° and 45° abduction) was called ω top max. The mean value of all ω max. values (for θ values between 0° and 45°) was called ω mean.
Temporal visual field in primary position of gaze: ε angle computation
The points and angles referred to are displayed in Figs 4, 5 and 6.
The ε angle was computed using the following equations:
The air and cornea refractive indices are 1 and 1.336, respectively. Then, according to Snell-Descartes law:
And then:
Points K, S and N computation
Let us consider the orthonormal basis
φh refers to the value of φ in humans.
For the archetypal human orbit, with the angle values given in degrees, the point S coordinates are:
The point N coordinates are then:
Let us now consider any φ value. For any modified human orbit (in which φ ≠ φh), with the angle values given in degrees, given that
and that
then the point S coordinates are:
Temporal visual field with eye abduction: ω angle computation
for θ = 0(primary position of gaze), ω = ε
Angle χ (critical angle) computation
Point C coordinates are:
Point D coordinates are:
Then:
and:
Computation of maximum visual field angles (ε max., ω max., ω top max.) and of ω mean
Angle χ is the critical angle: the ray is refracted through the pupil center if ω < χ (or, for θ = 0, if ε < χ). Using the aforementioned equation, a computer program was written to calculate the values of α and θ yielding the ω max. value for a given φ value.
For a given φ angle value
The ε max. value was computed by setting the θ value to zero and varying the α values only. The ω max. was computed by setting the θ angle value and varying the α angle values using 0.001 degree increments. Using dichotomy with 0.001 degree increments for the θ and α angles values, the comprehensive set of ω max. values was computed. The ω top max. value was computed by selecting the highest set value. The ω mean value was computed by averaging the whole set values.
Neutral φ angle value computation
The neutral φ value, i.e. the φ value that results in equal ω mean and ε max. values taking the whole range of eye abduction (θ from 0 to 45°) into account, was computed using dichotomy.
Oculo-orbital indices for modified (“non-human ape-like”) human orbits
In the NOP, the oculo-orbital index (OOI) denotes the proportion of the eyeball located anterior to the lateral bicanthal line (TT’ line in Fig. 4). The OOI is 65.7% in humans43. Using our coordinates system (Figs 4, 5 and 6):
In non-human ape-like orbits, with φh and φ expressed in degrees:
The OOIs were calculated in non-human apes to compare the data yielded (predicted) by our mathematical model to published data or published in-vivo facts regarding the more or less anterior eyeball position into the orbit. In doing so, we aimed to evaluate the relevance of our mathematical model in order to discuss results only in accordance with published data.
Additional Information
How to cite this article: Denion, E. et al. Human rather than ape-like orbital morphology allows much greater lateral visual field expansion with eye abduction. Sci. Rep. 5, 12437; doi: 10.1038/srep12437 (2015).
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We would like to thank Vincent Guyader for helpful suggestions. Source of funding: Some of the data collection expenses were paid for by AERON (Association Enseignement et Recherche en Ophtalmologie Normande – Normandy Association for Ophthalmology Teaching and Research).
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Denion, E., Hitier, M., Levieil, E. et al. Human rather than ape-like orbital morphology allows much greater lateral visual field expansion with eye abduction. Sci Rep 5, 12437 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/srep12437
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